Kyndryl reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(4,385 total reviews)

Martin Schroeter

70% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Kyndryl has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 4,385 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kyndryl employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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4K reviews
1.0
Oct 29, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

No Pros other than every genral IT MNC.

Cons

Kyndryl comprises of worst part of IBM. The Parts which IBM needed to throw away to stop them from bleeding into obscurity. There's no growth, there's no innovation. This company has no vision, no ambition and no future. This company is ruled by incompetent Mangers with most of them in early 40s and none of them having any insight in management. This utter lack of incompetent mangers is amplified by senior employees who are treated as royalty.

 There are no hike, no reviews, no exit interview, no Human Resources. 
 You'll have to beg for Paid Leaves, The Mangers are skilled at avoding discussions in PLs. The base salary of employees is extremely low compared to market Standards, shift allowances are lower than day labourer. 

In general an employee is married to his company, here at kyndryl you are married to Projects. Employees have been in one single projects for more than 5 years, there no way a person can switch to a new Project. Only way a employee can leave a Project is via Resignation.

 This company is sweat shop of personal assistant who know some tech. Most of the kyndryl projects are legacy projects, to the point where official support for the products have ended years ago. 

If you are young fresher, do not join this company. If you are comfortable with your salary and don’t want to put any extra efforts welcome to your heaven “Kyndryl”

1.0
Mar 15, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

None - Join only if you want to get laid off in span of few months.

Cons

1.Very Weak leadership 2.No Vision for growth 3. Company pays penalty to its customer just to keep the customer name on its list. 4.Heavy loss making company. 5. Non empathatic leadership which cannot keep longterm loyal employees with lesser than market costs are being asked to resign and the company doesnot have guts or courtesy to pay decent lay off or survival amount /package to its loyal employees. 7. NO NEW BUSINESS COMING IN...PLEASE STAY AWAY DONOT GET FOOLED BY THE PLUSH FANCY OFFICE ENVIRONMENT WHICH HAS REDUCED TO JUST COUPLE OF FLOORS FROM MULTIPLE BUILDINGS

2.0
Jun 19, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work Life Balance is good in this company. Hybrid work model, with 2 days Work from Home per week.

Cons

Very slow growth. Once you are in this company, don't expect much hike in salary or even promotions. The company is losing all its businesses. They are continuing with the accounts from IBM days, and unable to renew any profitable contracts. Company has downsized a lot over past couple of years. When Kyndryl was set up it used to have 90K+ employees, at present in 2025 it has around 74K. Kyndryl has accounts only in Bangalore location. All the other locations are just there for the mere sake of existence, with no good or very few accounts. You could end up reporting to 2 managers. 1st is people manager (not sure why this role is needed) for approving leaves, and doing your appraisals without knowing anything about the work that you do. 2nd is you functional manager, who looks after the delivery of your account. Just to get a single leave approved, you might need 3 levels of approval (Client Manage-->Functional Manager-->People Manager) It is an over-processed organization, so you might feel that things are moving very slowly, when HR or finance related issues are raised. Talking about HR, they are non-existent in Kyndryl, you will always be redirected to a chatbot, giving weird answers.

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